/sg/hotnews/ Hot News provided by Apple. en-us Copyright 2010, Apple Inc. Tue, 07 Oct 2008 15:29:59 PDT Tue, 9 Feb 2010 10:22:38 PDT Apple In house http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss/ /sg/aperture/ Apple today introduced Aperture 3, the next major release of its powerful photo editing and management software. Aperture 3 offers more than 200 new features including Faces, Places, and Brushes. A 30-day trial is now available for download. February 9, 2010 /sg/ipad/ Apple today introduced iPad, a revolutionary device for browsing the web, reading and sending email, enjoying photos, watching videos, playing games, and much more. Its high-resolution Multi-Touch display lets you interact with content — including 12 innovative new apps designed especially for iPad and almost all of the 140,000 apps available on the App Store. At just 0.5 inches thick and 1.5 pounds, iPad is thinner and lighter than any laptop or notebook. January 27, 2010 /sg/mobileme/features/gallery.html Today, MobileMe introduced a new Gallery app for iPhone and iPod touch. The app features iPhone- and iPod touch-optimised controls and beautiful gallery displays that make browsing photos and videos easier and more interactive than ever before. The Gallery app is free for MobileMe members and available now on the App Store in iTunes. January 14, 2010 /sg/imac/ Apple today unveiled an all new iMac line featuring brilliant LED-backlit 21.5 and 27-inch widescreen displays in a new edge-to-edge glass design and seamless all aluminum enclosure. The new iMac line, starting at S$1,788, is the fastest ever with Intel Core 2 Duo processors starting at 3.06 GHz, and Core i5 and i7 quad-core processors for up to twice the performance. Every new iMac ships with a wireless keyboard and the all new wireless Magic Mouse, the world’s first mouse with Multi-Touch technology. October 20, 2009 /sg/magicmouse/ Today Apple introduced the new wireless Magic Mouse, the first mouse to use Apple’s revolutionary Multi-Touch technology. Pioneered on iPhone, iPod touch and Mac notebook trackpads, Multi-Touch allows customers to navigate using intuitive finger gestures. Instead of mechanical buttons, scroll wheels or scroll balls, the entire top of the Magic Mouse is a seamless Multi-Touch surface. Magic Mouse comes standard with the new iMac and will be available as a Mac accessory at just S$98. October 20, 2009 /sg/macbook/ Apple today updated its popular MacBook with a new, durable polycarbonate unibody design featuring a brilliant LED-backlit display, a glass Multi-Touch trackpad and Apple’s innovative built-in battery for up to seven hours of battery life. Inheriting technology and design features from the MacBook Pro line, the new MacBook is an ideal consumer notebook for students and new Mac users, and is available for S$1,588. October 20, 2009 /sg/itunes/overview/ Apple today introduced iTunes 9, the latest version of the world’s most popular software application to manage and play media, packed with innovative features such as Home Sharing and Genius Mixes, as well as a redesigned store and improved syncing. iTunes 9 makes it easier than ever to discover and enjoy your music, video, and apps for iPod touch from Apple’s revolutionary App Store. September 9, 2009 /sg/ipodnano/ The new iPod nano adds a video camera, mic and speaker to the world’s most popular music player, allowing you to shoot video wherever you are, view it on your iPod nano and use your computer to easily transfer your videos to YouTube. The new iPod nano—available today in an 8GB model for S$228 and a 16GB model for S$288—features an ultra-thin and sleek design with a larger 2.2-inch colour display and gorgeous polished aluminium and glass enclosure in nine brilliant colours. September 9, 2009 /sg/ipodtouch/ The new iPod touch, starting at just S$308, gives you a great iPod, a great pocket computer, a great game player and access to Apple’s revolutionary App Store with over 65,000 applications. iPod touch features Apple’s revolutionary Multi-Touch user interface, a gorgeous 3.5-inch widescreen glass display, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and a built-in accelerometer and speaker in an amazingly thin metal design that slips easily into your pocket. September 9, 2009 /sg/ipodshuffle/ The iPod shuffle, the world’s smallest music player and the first music player to talk to you, is available now, starting at just S$88, in five great colours. iPod shuffle’s intuitive controls are conveniently located on the headphone cord, letting you navigate and enjoy music without even looking. September 9, 2009 /sg/macosx/ Apple today announced that Mac OS X v10.6 Snow Leopard will go on sale Friday, August 28. Apple’s online store is now accepting pre-orders. Snow Leopard builds on a decade of OS X innovation and success with hundreds of refinements, new core technologies and out of the box support for Microsoft Exchange. Snow Leopard will be available as an upgrade for Mac OS X Leopard users for S$48. August 24, 2009 http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=320654497&mt=8?sr=hotnews If you subscribe to MobileMe, you can now use your iPhone or iPod touch to view and share Pages documents, Keynote presentations, Microsoft Office documents, PDFs and more. To view documents, simply select them. To share them with others, just tap the share icon and choose your recipients. iDisk will send them an email with a download link. Get the free MobileMe iDisk app from the App Store. July 29, 2009 /sg/finalcutstudio/ Apple today announced a significant update to Final Cut Studio, offering more than 100 new features and new versions of Final Cut Pro, Motion, Soundtrack Pro, Color, and Compressor. Final Cut Pro 7 expands Apple’s ProRes codec family to support virtually any workflow and includes Easy Export for one step output to a variety of formats. July 23, 2009 /sg/logicstudio/ The new version of Logic Studio introduced today offers major upgrades to Logic Pro and Mainstage and more than 200 new features that simplify tasks. “The new Logic Studio is ideal for professional musicians, live performers and GarageBand enthusiasts who want to take their music to the next level,” said Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing. July 23, 2009 /sg/iphone/ Apple today introduced the new iPhone 3GS, featuring improved speed and performance—up to twice as fast as iPhone 3G—longer battery life, a high-quality 3 megapixel autofocus camera, easy to use video recording and hands free voice control. iPhone 3GS includes the new iPhone OS 3.0, with over 100 new features such as Cut, Copy and Paste, MMS, Spotlight Search, landscape keyboard and a new Find My iPhone feature that works together with MobileMe to help you locate a lost iPhone. June 8, 2009 /sg/macosx/ Apple today unveiled Mac OS X Snow Leopard, an even more powerful and refined version of the world's most advanced operating system that includes hundreds of refinements, new core technologies, out of the box support for Microsoft Exchange and new accessibility features. Snow Leopard will ship as an upgrade for Mac OS X Leopard users in September 2009. Apple also unveiled a Developer Preview of Mac OS X Server Snow Leopard, a full 64-bit UNIX server operating system based on open standards that is up to twice as fast as its predecessor. June 8, 2009 /sg/safari/ Today Apple released Safari 4, the world's fastest and most innovative web browser. Available for Mac and Windows PCs and introduced as a beta in February of this year, Safari 4 features the Nitro engine which runs JavaScript up to 4.5 times faster than Safari 3. Safari 4 makes browsing more intuitive and enjoyable with innovative features, such as Top Sites, Full History Search and Cover Flow, and support for modern web standards like HTML 5 and advanced CSS Effects. June 8, 2009 http://www.filemaker.com/redirects/appstore.html Now you can keep your life organized—on the go. With its 25 ready-to-use templates, “Bento for iPhone and iPod touch” lets you take client information on the road, track trip expenses, create To Do lists, manage membership lists, or plan events. And since Bento for iPhone and iPod touch synchs wirelessly with Bento 2.0v4 for Mac, you can keep all your personal databases up to date.  Just US$4.99 in the App Store. May 5, 2009 /sg/xserve/ Thanks to its Intel Nehalem Xeon processors and a next generation system architecture, the updated Xserve announced today delivers up to twice the performance of the previous system. It’s available with up to two 2.93 GHz Intel Xeon processors, industry-leading storage options, and up to 3TB of internal storage. Starting at S$5,088, Xserve includes an unlimited client license for Mac OS X Server version 10.5 Leopard. April 7, 2009 /sg/iphone/preview-iphone-os/ Apple today announced that iPhone OS 3.0 software, coming this summer, will deliver 100 new features, including cut, copy and paste; MMS; landscape view for Mail, Text and Notes; stereo Bluetooth; Notes syncing; shake to shuffle; parental controls for TV shows, movies and App Store apps; and a new Voice Memo app. Apple also released an updated SDK, with more than 1,000 new Application Programming Interfaces, to registered developers. March 17, 2009 /sg/ipodshuffle/ Apple today introduced the all-new iPod shuffle. The world’s smallest music player, the 3rd-generation iPod shuffle is nearly half the size of the previous model. To control it, you use the new earphone cord. Best of all, it talks to you. Thanks to the new VoiceOver feature, iPod shuffle speaks your song titles, artists, and playlist names. Available today in silver or black, it holds up to 1,000 songs and costs just S$128. March 11, 2009 /sg/imac/ The new iMac line includes a 20-inch model for only S$1,948 and the flagship 24-inch iMac which is priced more affordably than ever before. For the same S$2,448 price as the previous generation 20-inch iMac, the new 24-inch iMac delivers a 30 percent larger display, twice the memory and twice the storage. It features the Intel Core 2 Duo processor running at speeds up to 3.06 GHz, 4GB of 1066 MHz DDR3 memory, a 640GB or 1TB Serial ATA hard drive, and several options for graphics processors. March 3, 2009 /sg/macmini/ Starting at S$988, the new Mac mini is an innovative, tiny desktop that measures just 16.51 by 16.51 by 5.08 cm. Now featuring the same groundbreaking NVIDIA GeForce 9400M integrated graphics processsor that comes in MacBook family computers, it delivers up to five times better graphics performance. It’s also the world’s most energy efficient desktop, drawing less than 13 watts of power when idle. March 3, 2009 /sg/macpro/ Apple today introduced the new Mac Pro. Featuring Intel “Nehalem” Xeon processors running at speeds up to 2.93 GHz and a next-generation system architecture, the new Mac Pro delivers up to twice the performance of the previous generation Mac Pro. It also features the latest graphics technology and an updated interior that makes expansion even easier than before. The new Mac Pro starts at just S$3,988. March 3, 2009 /sg/safari/ Apple today announced Safari 4 public beta for Mac and Windows. With its new Nitro engine, Safari 4 runs JavaScript 4.2 times faster than Safari 3. And it features many innovative new features that make browsing more intuitive and enjoyable, including Top Sites, Full History Search, Cover Flow, Tabs on Top, and still others. Safari 4 beta is available for immediate download for the Mac and PC in English. February 24, 2009